The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-19
Notes and Opinions.
THE crank is central figure again at
the national capital.

THE French papers begin to think
Bismarck's course threatens France.
TIE Philadelphia Inquirer thinks
that Mrs. Cleveland could be reelected
without difficulty.
THE efforts of the New York World
to boom Mr.. Conkling for senator met
with freezing reception.
THE Missouri legislature is consider
ing proposition to submit the ques-
ton of prohibition to popular vote.
LoGAN's political shoes are hard to
fill, more perhaps from the peculiar pat
tern than the size.-SyrdcuSe Standard.
THE law cannot make man moral,
but it can make him dreadfully uncom-
Portable when he is immoral. -Col,nt-
bus Enquirer.
THE business outlook for 1887 is
good, if labor does not persist in
smashing the golden egg of opportun-
ity.--Sprinqfeld Union.
AT the rate the British army has been
evacuating Egypt for a year past, the
last of the soldiers would reach home
in about one hundred years.
DURING his speech Prince Bismarck
drank nine glasses of cold brandy and
water.-Cable Dispatch. If this don't
mean war, what does it mean?
GENERAL SHERMAN says that, from
military point of view, the siege and
capture of Vicksburg were probably of
more importance than the battle of
Gettysburg.
THE free-traders had demonstra-
ton in New York last week, and
praised President Cleveland and Secre-
tary Manning for their course on the
tariff question.
LORD IDDEsLEIGH's death creates a
great sensation in England. He chung
to office as to life, and Lord Salisbury's
course in forcing him out of the cabinet
is sharply criticised.
A SAMPLE dspach from Trenton,
N. j., last week: 1.-THE circus in the
New Jersey legislature was resumed
this morning, and the house resolved
itself into bowling mob.'
IT is said that the republicans of
Rhode Island want broader party Or
ganization. 1t is not easy to see how
they can get it without trespassiDg on
the territory of adjoining states.
AS for the mugwumps, we are better
off without them.-LOuiSrile Courier
Journal (democroD. So is a rich man
without his poor relations, but the mis-.
chief of it is they won't let him be with
out them. Tribune.
A STRONG push is being made to in
duce congress to pass the Blair educa-
ton bill during the present session,
and petitions are being circulated all
over the country by the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union in aid of
the bill.
THE London Times stated previous
to our last presidential election that the
Golden Club had raised over 50 900 900,
principally for use in the United States
to secure free-trade. What have the
free-trade journals of America to say
to tbiSo Notbipu
GENERAL WARNER, who is now en-
gagged in the iron industry in Alabama,
says that the republicans might have
carried the white counties of Alabama
at the late election, with proper effort,
and perhaps the entire state, such is
the change in sentiment which the in
dustrial revolution is bringing.
BIsMARCK's and Won Moltkes
speeches in the German Reichstag on
the army bill, last week, have alarmed
all Europe, and are regarded as seri-
Gus menace to France. The latter
power has increased its war appropria-
ton this year seventeen millions.
THE republicans in the North Caro-
lima house of representatives by COM
bining with few independent demo-
Gratis, have been strong enough to de-
feat the regular democratic candidate
for speaker and to elect an independ-
ent who is opposed to the regular
bourbons.
THERE is nothing more natural than
that the free-traders should deny that
there is any prosperity in the South. If
there is even any hope of prosperity
under the present condition of things,
their theory gets black eye that will
last it for several generations in this
part of the eountry.-Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
JUST because the democratic men,
bers of the Indiana supreme court re-
fused to sustain the claim of Green
Smith (democraD to the lieutenant
governorship, the democratic Indian
apolis Sentinel exclaimed: "D--n their
cowardy souls. The members of the
supreme court of Indiana are afraid of
their shadows"
WHAT makes the rich richer and
the poor poorer" is question that
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